"TechShops" Engaging Young Adults with Intellectual Disability in Exploratory Design Research

Bayor, Andrew A.; Sitbon, Laurianne; Ploderer, Bernd; Birčanin, Filip; Brereton, Margot

doi:10.1145/3290607.3299056

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“…Designing accessible interactions and interfaces requires to involve people with disabilities [59] but also their family environment and their caregivers [7,31]. Indeed, Phillips et Zhao [50] showed that people with special needs frequently abandon technology if their needs and opinions have not been considered in the design process.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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CandyFly: Bringing fun to drone pilots with disabilities through adapted and adaptable interactions

Garcia

Brock

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…"design after design" [9] and TechShops (collaborative workshopbased approaches) [7] have previously been applied for designing with people with cognitive and sensory impairments. We were also inspired by Metatla et al [43] who proposed using highly adaptable technologies to assess the interactions and interfaces.…”

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CandyFly: Bringing fun to drone pilots with disabilities through adapted and adaptable interactions

Garcia

Brock

2022

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…We had been running a workshop with other participants about search on Youtube [4], and support workers had suggested to invite Alex to the workshops. While we were unsure what a suitable way of engaging Alex in the workshop might be, the support workers indicated that he would potentially benefit from simply sitting with us.…”

Section: Observationsmentioning

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Designing an IIR Research Apparatus with Users with Severe Intellectual Disability

Birčanin

Sitbon

Favre

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Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

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Traditional methods of engagement with pre-defined queries, verbal instruction and interviewing do not provide necessary means to address information-seeking behavior and visual browsing for participants with severe autism and intellectual disability. In this paper, we identify challenges and characteristics of providing effective methods to explore visual browsing and video recommender systems with one non-verbal participant with autism and intellectual disability. We contribute a case study and a reflection on a) how iterative design approaches that builds on special interests and strengths of one individual with disability can support experimental IIR research in becoming more inclusive, b) some of the ethical consideration that arise in the tensions between participation in the research and other interests and c) how flexible experimental and apparatus design can further allow participant's terms to prevail. CCS CONCEPTS• Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); Accessibility; • Information systems → Users and interactive retrieval.

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“…Some of the observations were made during technology use workshops, called "Techshops", which we conducted over a one year period. These workshops engaged young adults with ID from two of the community centers in learning how to use everyday technologies including YouTube and social Media [7]. Other observations were made during an ethnography of four participants with complex communication needs who also attend one of the community centers, for more details see one of the case studies [8].…”

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“…During the Techshops [7], searching was found challenging due to issues with typing and spelling. We introduced the workshop participants to voice search.…”

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A Framework for Information Accessibility in Large Video Repositories

Sitbon

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Zhang

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval

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Online videos are a medium of choice for young adults to access or receive information, and recent work has highlighted that it is a particularly effective medium for adults with intellectual disability, by its visual nature. Reflecting on a case study presenting fieldwork observations of how adults with intellectual disability engage with videos on the Youtube platform, we propose a framework to define and evaluate the accessibility of such large video repositories, from an informational perspective. The proposed framework nuances the concept of information accessibility from that of the accessibility of information access interfaces themselves (generally catered for under web accessibility guidelines), or that of the documents (generally covered in general accessibility guidelines). It also includes a notion of search (or browsing) accessibility, which reflects the ability to reach the document containing the information. In the context of large information repositories, this concept goes beyond how the documents are organized into how automated processes (browsing or searching) can support users. In addition to the framework we also detail specifics of document accessibility for videos. The framework suggests a multi-dimensional approach to information accessibility evaluation which includes both cognitive and sensory aspects. This framework can serve as a basis for practitioners when designing video information repositories accessible to people with intellectual disability, and extends on the information presentation guidelines such as suggested by the WCAG.

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"TechShops" Engaging Young Adults with Intellectual Disability in Exploratory Design Research

Cited by 17 publications

References 13 publications

CandyFly: Bringing fun to drone pilots with disabilities through adapted and adaptable interactions

CandyFly: Bringing fun to drone pilots with disabilities through adapted and adaptable interactions

Designing an IIR Research Apparatus with Users with Severe Intellectual Disability

A Framework for Information Accessibility in Large Video Repositories

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